, 1887-07-30
CARE OF THE STOMACH.



An old New Yorker, who was brought
up in hotels and restaurants, and knows
all about eating, gave some points to a
reporter the other day about the way for
a man to make friends with his stomach.
There are two big mistakes that almost
all persons make, " said he. Zone is that
they don't eat the right things, and the
other is that what they do eat they don't
eat right. Dyspepsia and Indigestion are
killing more people than rum ten times
over. Why delirium remen is Joy COM
pared with a bad digestion. When a man
has the tremens he's happy sometimes,
because he forgets himself, but when he's
got dyspepsia his stomach is always with
him, and he's always conscious of il. He
can't sleep. His food doesn't taste right.
Boils break out over him. He's morbid.
All his friends seem to have deserted him,
and some day he goes off and blows his
brains out, and the public and news
papers say he had business troubles.
Business troublesl Why, what does a
man care for business troubles when his
stomach's all right? If his stomach is
right his head will be clear, and he'll
prosper. No glutton or dyspeptic can
stand up alongside Of a mar with a sound
stomach and a clear head.
When you got up this morning what
did You do? Went right off to breakfast
and filed yourself, with your nose in the
papers and your mind wandering over
the earth. You don't know what YOU
ate, or how much or how long it took.
For all the good it did you, you might as
well have swallowed bacon and corn
bread, or turkey and buckwheat cakes,
or any other mixture that would take up
space in your stomach. Then, while you
ate, you gulped down ice water and cof-
fee alternately, and when you got through
you lit u cigar and went down town, glad
you had done part of the work of the day.
That's not breakfasting. It's loading
up your stomach, and it's worse for you
than If you hadn't eaten anything. Then
you ave a headache and feel bad, and
grow fat, and wonder why it all is. It's
because you don't pay as much attention
to your stomach as you do to your office
boy. You stomach takes its revenge by
making you wretched. To squelch it you
pour a lot of liquor into it and gulp some
ice water on that, with a cracker or pref
eel and a bit Of cheese. What sort of a
mixture do you call that2 Just imagine
the cheese and rum and p~retzel, and
think that something inside of you has
got to get away with that. If you want
to drink, drink and enjoy your drink.
Don't dow it n fling things at it when
you've got it down. Take a glass of wine
and enjoy it, but don't fling it into your
stomach as you would your fist into some
body's eye. your stomach ought to be
your friend, but if you go to pitching into
it it'll show fight, and you may as well
understand that it'll get the best of it.
agANhpn Won oat nm ~ fhn 1,n;n toIr.
n big drink of water. Your system wants
water first. An engine isn't first fired
up and then water let into the boiler.
Clean your teeth, and let the water run
from the spigot while you're doing it.
Then drink q pint of it. Use common
hydrant water; no ice, no salt, no mineral
water. Ordinary water is good enough
for an ordinarily healthy man. Keep
away from drugs and pills and give your
stomach a show.
"If you're in a hurry t o read the papers,
read them before breakfast. When YOU
sit down to the breakfast table be happy;
you're going to do something pleasant.
breakfast isn't a penalty imposed on you
or a task to be performed as soon as pos
sible, but a pleasant, enjoyable occasion.
Try and have somebody talk to you, and
talk yourself. Laugh. Start off with
fruit-some oranges, say. Then eat some
fish and stale bread, or stale rolls or toast.
If you want anything more, eat some
meat. Take your time to it all. l stay
at the table for an hour, and eat all the
time. Don't eat much, but take your
time to it. If you haven't time, eat less.
The time you spend at breakfast will be
saved over and over again during the
day.
If you've been up the night before
don't take a cocktail or ice water. Try
some broth and some tripe if your stom-
ach's pretty far gone. When o mans
been off n little his stomach is raw and
inflamed. He doesn't want to start right
off with more rum. Let him give his
stomach a show. tn pay him to. Cod
die your stomach in the morning and it'll
stand up for you at night. If you 90
pitching into it first thing it will have its
revenge.
Don't smoke in the morning. Don't
drink in the morning. If you must
smoke and you must drink, wait until
your stomach is through with breakfast.
Try this thing of starting off fair and
square. You can drink more and smoke
more in the evening, and it won't tell on
it. A mans stomach is his friend, and
if he'll only treat it kindly the first hall
of the day it will show its appreciation
and stick by him at night. New York
Sun.